Three months after air transport data giant SITA reported a data breach, we are still learning about the damage. Air India said this week that personal data of about 4.5 million passengers had been compromised following the incident at SITA, Indian flag carrier airline’s data processor. The stolen information included passengers’ names, credit card details,…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Malware as-a-Service Mayor Says 2018 Atlanta Ransom Attack Served Notice ‘That We Needed to Up Our Game’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 24, 2021 G.T. Bynum, mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pictured at a 2019 event (Photo: Naval Surface Warriors via Flickr/CC) “Ransomware attackers…
U.S. insurance giant CNA Financial reportedly paid $40 million to a ransomware gang to recover access to its systems following an attack in March, making it one of the most expensive ransoms paid to date. The development was first reported by Bloomberg, citing “people with knowledge of the attack.” The adversary that staged the intrusion…
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Researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point discovered that many Android applications publicly expose sensitive user data through misconfigured third-party services. The research involved the analysis of 23 Android applications and revealed issues related to real-time databases, cloud storage keys, and push notifications. The exposed data, which pertains to more than 100 million Android users, includes…
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is one of the many useful tools we can use to stop cybersecurity threats. This long-standing standard separates a network into seven layers, offering suggestions for protecting each of them. In this blog series, we’ll examine the layers one by one to understand this model. Each piece follows the same…
Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea | IT Security News 24. May 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed.Attributing the attack with “medium-high”…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the same group of online extortionists blamed for striking the Irish health system last week have also hit at least 16 US medical and first response networks in the past year. In an alert made public Thursday by the American Hospital Association, the FBI said the cybercriminals using…
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with “medium-high” likelihood to the Lazarus Group (aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra), researchers from Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky said the campaign, dubbed “CryptoCore,” targeted crypto exchanges in…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Engineering Microsoft Says Spam Campaign Uses Updated Variant Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 24, 2021 If the “Outgoing Payments” PDF is clicked, it downloads the StrRAT. (Source: Microsoft) Microsoft is warning about a spam campaign that uses an updated variant of Java-based StrRAT malware that…
